PRAGUE -- Last month's terrorist attacks on the U.S. have forced the Czech Republic to revisit an unsavory slice of its past: the use of its capital as a hub for Iraqi intelligence.

On Friday, Czech officials confirmed that suspected covert Iraqi activity recently took place inside their borders. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said Mohamed Atta, suspected of piloting American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center North Tower on Sept. 11, "made contact" sometime during the spring with Ahmed Khalil...